From the Simplicity® Limited Edition line by Brother™ this easy-to-use sewing machine has the features to help you easily tackle your first sewing project. The SB170 is simply compact, lightweight and fun to show off to your friends at sewing club! Start creating beautiful garments with 17 built-in sewing stitches, including 1 style of 4-step auto-size buttonhole. Creativity and variety are virtually limitless with the built-in free arm for sewing on hard to reach areas like cuffs and sleeves. This fun sewing machine is for you!

Expand the work area of your machine with this easy to attach, extra wide extension table. The snap-on table extends to the left and rear of your existing work area, for easier handling of larger projects and heavier weight fabrics.

For quilt and patchwork piecing with 1/4" or 1/8" seam allowances. Using the center needle, straight stitch position, the right front edge of this foot provides a guide for creating even ¼-inch seams for quilts, doll clothes and heirloom sewing projects. When using the left side of the foot as a guide, an 1/8-inch seam is created.

Genuine Brother® Accessory. This foot attaches zippers and pipings easily. Its position can be adjusted exactly on the edge of the zipper/piping, avoiding the non-flat parts of them. It also presses the fabric with just the right pressure. Adjustable zipper foot for left or right seams. Adjustable guide to accommodate varying piping dimensions. Single stitch opening for accurate and perfect straight stitch creation.

Genuine Brother® Accessory. Attaches bias tape with widths less than 7 mm (1/4 of an inch) using straight, zig zag or decorative stitches. The design of this foot will place your ready-made bias tape or will fold and place precut bias strips correctly for easy sewing to the edge of a fabric

Genuine Brother® Accessory. A great foot for both embellishing and utility use. Adjustable for creating blind hems on a variety of fabrics. While designed for blind stitching, the foot works well for edge stitching, lace and fabric edge joining.

Genuine Brother® Accessory. Secure and apply cording in one step. Allows for the insertion of cords held by a notched clip with cords being stitched down using a serpentine zig zag or decorative stitch. Couch multiple threads with zig zag stitches. Flexible grooved securing attachment handles threads of varying thicknesses.

This genuine Brother® accessory is perfect for precise and easy joining of fabrics, even sheers and difficult fabrics. Hold fabrics in place while leaving a space to allow open decorative stitches such as open weave stitches. Reference marks to increase accuracy. Foot can be used to line up and sew edgings such as lace to edges of other fabric. Centered blade enhances ability to follow the edge of the fabric.

The Fringe foot is a good tool for creating 3-D flowers, heirloom seam joins, surface texture and custom trims with a simple zig zag stitch. This foot was originally designed and used to mark construction details by creating tailor tacking, so feel free to use it as a great marking too as well!

The Gathering Foot can be used for lightly gathering fabric as well as attaching the gathered edge to a flat (ungathered) fabric, at the same time quickly and easily. The gathering foot will allow the sewer to gently ease or slightly gather fabric for various garment and home decorating applications.

Genuine Brother® Accessory. Designed for consistent feeding with fabric such as leather, vinyl and other novelty fabrics. Non-stick foot glides over difficult fabric surfaces with ease improving stitch quality in many problem fabrics (some fabrics may bind under metal feet often causing problems in consistant feed resulting in poor stitch quality). The non stick foot overcomes problems with fabric such as loop and hook tapes, leather and vinyl. Similar to standard J and Clear-view feet.

Genuine Brother® Accessory. Open toe foot for 5 mm feed dogs on vertical bobbin case machines. Open Toe foot is used with any application where extra visibility while sewing is desired. Use where visibility is important for seams with markings or curves and pattern markings. Wide opening for wide range of left to right needle positions.

The Overlock Foot is used for sewing overcast seams and protect edges from fraying. Use the overcast stitches in your machine and see what a difference this foot makes in their appearance and functionality!

Genuine Brother® Accessory. Roll fabric edge and hem stitch at the same time. Picot foot looks similar to narrow hemmer foot but is designed to create a shell look edge on lightweight fabric. Groove on sole of foot has been specifically developed to match width of picot stitches for perfect stitch formation. Groove on sole of foot allows stitches to feed evenly while being created and sewn.

Designed for creating custom piping, for home dec and other uses. The over-sized channels in this 7mm snap-on foot provide more accurate placement of piping, and the wide needle opening allows for a range of stitch widths.

The adjustable guide can be used to sew parallel rows at preset even intervals. Slide straight bar into the hole of the presser foot ankle or walking foot (equipped with a mounting hole). The distance from the needle may be adjusted by sliding the guide from left to right.

Perfect for sewing on vinyl, velvet, suede and leather fabrics. The dual rollers on this 7mm snap-on foot help provide for more accurate and consistent sewing, as the rollers work in tandem with the machine feed dogs to pull the fabric through, for a more consistent fabric surface. This foot has a wide needle opening, allowing for a range of stitch widths.

Designed for quilting and other projects that require stitching over an existing seam, this foot rides smoothly over the seam, helping to ensure your stitching remains more perfectly aligned while you ‘stitch in the ditch’. The long guide and wide opening on this foot allow for more accurate sewing and stitch placement.

Genuine Brother® Accessory. The walking foot is a moving feed system that holds and moves fabric between the presser foot's upper feed dog and the machines's lower feed dogs to better control difficult fabrics as well as multiple layers of fabric. The walking foot is great for quilting, sewing when matching prints or plaids or fabric drift is an issue.

Brother® offers several Walking Feet which differ in the size of the feed dog, shank height etc. Please check your manual or the machine listings on this website to find the correct Walking Foot to fit your machine. Walking Feet are not for use in reverse or side to side sewing as well as some built in stitches that include other than forward movement of the feed dogs.

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kailiismom from
Perfect for my 13yr oldThis is a perfect started machine. My daughter loves how easy it is to use. She sews everything she can. Simple and easy was what we were going for.

Date published: 2017-03-29

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Deacon from
Great little simple machineI was looking for the simple everyday sewing machine and this is IT!

Date published: 2017-02-19

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Princess from
Good purchaseThe machine is simple to use. A great sewing machine to take to quilting classes.

Date published: 2016-05-12

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Mamie from
Best value for the priceThis machine does an excellent job for all of my sewing needs. The machine is easy to use. My 11 year old granddaughter can even use the machine.

Date published: 2015-09-28

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Drezure from
Blown AwayI originally decided to purchase a sewing machine because i was tired of having a friend always sew something for me. This machine meets and exceeds all my expectations. It is very easy to use and runs smooth.

Date published: 2015-09-23

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craftnurse from
SB170Love it. Wanted a small portable machine with 1/4" foot and walking foot attachments to take to quilting bees. Sometimes sews better than my big computerized machines!

Date published: 2015-05-09

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Mell from
Best machine everI just received this the brother simplicity for Christmas.. I am a novice at sewing and this is the easiest machine I have used.. I absolutely love it!